Happy New Year Everybody!!! It is now 12:21am Central Time. So it is officially 2019. I hope that this will be a great year for all of us. New beginnings so I'm going to work at getting back to lower carb eating. Will try to do more of a CAD/IF plan. I did stay within the 8 hr eating window, but too many carbs. But I didn't care since I knew I planned on starting back on CAD/IF on Jan 1. I did do 20 minutes on the bike. It helps to have something to read when I'm riding it. I am going to try to do better this year with that. I have a difficult time lifting my legs high enough to get in my car so I've decided to do some marching around the house. I spent a good 6 yrs of my life marching in the band when young and never knew how it worked my back muscles. I forgot that I did that and guess that is why I woke up with back pain like I had pulled a muscle in my back.

Planning to make salmon salad in the morning for breakfast and probably codfish for lunch.

Carol Sue I have been buying whatever Chicken of the Sea can salmon is. I will have too look for the salmon at Dollar Tree. It is so expensive in the stores. I used to buy pink salmon when previous DH was living, but haven't bought it since DH doesn't like it. I know some keto people talk about making salmon patties and using crushed pork skins as a filler. I thought about trying that.

Guess I will head to bed now that the New Year has come in. I'll catch y'all later.

Trish, DH made me stay up til 12. Right now I don't want to go to bed and leave him up alone. I was so tired but he wasn't because he took a nap. I slept straight through until 5:45 by taking Tylenol. Now he wanted coffee. I didn't drink any because I'm hoping to go back to sleep. Its too early to start my day. No one is coming today. Yay. Tomorrow they will start working on stairs with DH. Pray that he does ok and doesn't fall.

I think we will do well in 2019. I feel that low carb is essential for BS control But we each have our own carb level that works for us, so your needs will not be the same as mine, and vice versa.

We went back to bed. DH slept great. I dozed a bit. We got back up around 8:45 and had coffee and scrambled eggs with toast. I was so hungry I felt weak, so those eggs tasted really good.

I just went online and ordered my meds. I am really running low, but I didn't want to order them until the new year because I know I was close to the coverage gap. I hope they arrive in time, but I doubt if it would be a problem if I skip a day or two. They don't normally take long to get here. This is the same pharmacy I worked for before I retired. I remember so many people sent their scripts in on Jan 1 for the same reason. Some people sent them in early with a note to hold them until Jan 1. I doubt if they are working today but they will be in the system for tomorrow morning. We had the opportunity to work holidays when it was busy, but they have not been as busy since the company changed hands. Their new office is right behind our Walmart and I see a lot of my former coworkers shopping when they come out of work.

Well, I am not sure that I slept very well last night although I took a Benadryl along with the Tart Cherry Extract. I kept dreaming that I was trying to work some sort of puzzle so I could go to sleep. Weird.

Weight this morning was still 216.8 and that makes me .8 lb less than I was last January 1st. FBS was 169 and I'm sure that is from all the carbs I've had lately.

I woke up at 6:45 and was ready to get up. I think it is because it was getting light outside so days are going to get longer. I am usually pretty good about waking up with daylight unless I've gone to bed extremely late. I was in bed a little after 1 am I think. So the waking up so much during the night or feeling like I didn't sleep could be another reason FBS was high. I checked it after coffee and exercise and it was back down to 153. I am glad to say that I have done 2 days of exercise on the bike for this week. I'm not going to set a certain amount of days, but am going to shoot for as many as possible. I'm reading a good Joyce Meyer book right now which makes it easy to get those 20 minutes done.

I'm back on CAD this morning. I decided to have eggs and bacon with mozzarella cheese and my coffee as well as trying to drink more water today. I decided that when I make my salad today at lunch time that I will make the salmon salad at the same time. I will commit to doing the 8:16 IF for now and just before my 8 hrs is up, I will eat some of the salmon salad. The can is bigger than a one serving so I decided that I can get 2 days out of it. I am definitely going to stop the night time eating. I know that is what does me in.

DH took the sheet I have used for years and make it more specific for what I keep up with on weight etc. His first wife who was diabetic had to check her bs much more than I do as it was way out of control. I only check mine 2 or 3 times a day. I also put my weight and bp and heart rate on mine so he changed it for those reading for me. I do the heart rate just because it comes up on the bp machine. So I'm set. I need to get the other sheets out for keeping up with the meals I eat as well.

Carol Sue Our New Years eve was a little different this year in the fact that we didn't watch it come in on TV. I have no idea who had it on. From the first time we met before we got married, we always saw the new year come in starting with the east coast all the way to the west. We watched dvd movies we had on hand and were able to see some fireworks someone did in the neighborhood through our moon widow. DH realized it was the New Year and decided to put our little Christmas tree away and we told each other Happy New year and I went to bed. Not very eventful, but nice and quite.

I talked to Daddy this morning and he seems fine. I heard from his brother's daughter and wanted to tell him she wished us all HNY and text some pictures that I would share when I see him. He was joking with his buddies so I let him go. He had had therapy early this morning and was hungry hoping they are going to have something good to eat today. So that was good.

I have some more reading to do before DH gets up. I think I will take a nap before lunch since I didn't sleep good last night and then got up so early.

Hope everybody is have a nice New Years day.

DH took a nap while I watched my soaps. I didn't get a nap. Ate some of my neighbor's pork and sauerkraut for lunch, and I have mine cooking for dinner. I make a loin chop for DH and country ribs for me. Plus a hot dog and piece of kielbassi for him. I don't want any keilbassi or hotdog. I do want some mashed potatoes, though. I like to put my sauerkraut over my mashed potatoes and put ketchup on it. LOL That grosses DH out, but it's something I got from my father when I was a kid. I could make dumplings with it but I don't have any Bisquick.

DH kept switching from NYC to LA last night. We are in the same time zone as NYC so we went to bed after that. If I was alone, I doubt if I would be watching. I would have been asleep by 10 PM.

I think my Tart Cherry Extract is due to be delivered tomorrow.

the last of the over eating should be done. Hosted brunch to 22 today. Everyone had a great time and a great feast. I accidentally ate something with a little wheat. ( a chocolate someone brought me) so I expect a little reaction soon. Otherwise a good time. the leftovers are just meats and cheese and quiche (with no crust) .
So we can handle that with no problem. I do plan to fast from now until at least supper tomorrow. Maybe until Thursday. I feel so full!

I am glad we are all managing things to the best of our abilities. We can look forward to a healthy (healthier) year.
Best wishes friends

Wow! Brunch for 22. I don't think I could do that. I am not a good hostess for large groups like that, but I would enjoy the meat, cheeses and crustless quiche.

Day 1 on CAD went off without any problem. I read on the FB CAD advice for those starting today to remember that the jump start for week one has o be 2CM amd 1 RM and no snacks then decide depending on how weight is whether to add snacks. I did the 3 meals within the 8 hrs of IF eating with no problem. I was going to finish off the day with a serving of the salmon salad and yogurt with cinnamon, but only ate a small amount of the cinnamon yogurt because I ordered the Organic Ceylon cinnamon in powder form rather than capsules and put way too much in the yogurt. Man it was strong and I can tell that this will last a very long time because it doesn't take very much.

fatmad It has a long time since I entertained that many people. I hope the wheat reaction to the chocolate won't be too bad. I find it very nice that your DH fasts with you now. Obviously he sees what it has done for you and you have inspired him to do it too. It is nice that the left over meat, cheese nd quiche are foods you can use OP.

Carol Sue I love kielbasa but never buy it any more because that is a food I can't keep my hands off of. I d o believe I could eat the whole package at once. I'm like my Daddy when it comes to those types of sausages. I especially love the one made in the little Chec community not for from us. They have recently started producing theirs and selling it in the local stores. It is so tempting to buy them but they are so fatty and would blow my low fat diet.

I hope we will all have a nice evening and a good nights sleep.

yum, I love kielbasa (in any spelling) too. I also could eat way too much. Its usually quite garlicky and I find I get smelly if I eat too much. I do use some garlic in cooking, but for some reason it reeks out of my pores if I eat that sausage!.

It took a long while to clean up all the dishes etc today, with DH doing so much too, but now the kitchen is very clean, and so is our community centre, all fresh and clean for the new year. We had a nice hot tub after that, and will head to bed early. At least I will, DH had a little nap so he may be up later than me.

I think DH will not go past 24 hrs fasting yet, and he will likely do his usually 2MAD tomorrow. I won't be around at lunch so will leave that to him to manage as he likes. He doesn't need to lose more weight, but he wants more of the pot to go away, He is looking leaner and stronger, he has been working out a bit. So all good. He has a plan of what he will have for supper tomorrow. A caesar salad and some of the quiche. I will likely have something like that when next I eat, but I use the Newmans creamy garlic dressing instead of caesar because there is no lemon juice in it.

I like to cook and host parties, and with DH helping, I like to do it. I used to host a large holiday party serving home made "tourtière" a french-canadian meat pie, using my grandmother's (grandmere) recipe. We would eat a big dinner, with that as the main course, and other people would bring potluck offerings. Then those who play instruments would play and sing until the wee hours. I didn't do one last year, my work schedule didn't fit it over the holiday season, I thought I would do it in February, but then Dad died. Now that I can't bake with flour, I am not sure I will do it again. I was thinking to have DD help my with the crusts, but I am less in the mood now. I enjoyed today, but not sure I want to do it again with the music. I like those people, but not sure about another party. Oh well no pressure on myself.

Well, I am having a nice naturally tiredness, and will head to bed soon.
have a great night friends.

I share with you the good, the bad and the ugly. Today is the ugly: scale says 157. I know it will go away again, and its a temporary gain, but still. Gack.
Back to the grind

I can only eat a very small portion of kielbasa unless I have it on bread in a sandwich. Too fatty and spicy for me to eat alone. I seem to prefer bland food.

I spoke too soon about the hand pain. I have been eating candy and I think it's the sugar doing it. Mental note to self. No more candy.

Wt 185 FBG 136

My eating isn't exactly back to what it was before, but it's way more than it was when DH was in the hospital. I have to back off this. One of the problems is eating some carbs. Then I need G, then I'm afraid blood sugar will go too low during the night so I eat some candy to prevent that. I have proven to myself if I eat just a little carb I don't need the G and I'm much better off because then I'm not risking a low.

All this candy that is here is for DH. He only eats a little bit at a time, but I've been dipping into it too. Even if it's to prevent a low, I shouldn't be doing it. It needs to stop.

My weight also could be up because of the sauerkraut I ate two days in a row. I know it's very salty and with the meat cooked in it, the meat is salty too. It will come off, but I'd much rather not gain it to begin with.

Weight was up to 218 thus morning and FBS 147. I didn't have any snacks last night and stayed within 8 hr eating window.

I decided not to follow CAD. I went back to using MFP. I forgot that the one thing I didn't like about CAD is having your starches at one meal. I do seem to need the grains and I like to spread them out through the day even in a 2MAD rather than have them at one. I'm glad I decided to track on MFP because I found out that the yogurt I've been eating just might be the problem with the weight loss lately. I knew it was low fat 1.5 grams, but I what I didn't realize was that this little 4 oz container of yogurt has 120 calories and 22 gr carbohydrates of which 19 g is sugar. I still have 4 servings and I guess I will use them and then I will go back to the Dannon Fit & Lite. No wonder that stuff tasted so good. :(

Another good thing I learned is that the bacon I now buy at Sam's is 90 calories a slice. I'm not used to such large slices since I have been buying the low sodium from the local store. 2 slices is just too much. I don't think I need 2 eggs and 2 slices of bacon any more. I believe I can get buy with 1/2 banana, 1 sl bacon, 1 egg and 1 slice of Sarah Lee MG toast. It seems that my stomach has shrunk. I will still fill in once in a while with the oatmeal, but I won't eat it everyday. Maybe even go to alternating it. That way I can have our main meal with a salad and whatever we are having that day like I do now and make that more of a variety of what DH and I both like. I like the simple protein, veggie and salad most of the time, but will work in a pizza or some other food he likes keeping it mostly healthier foods most days. I actually believe that I can eventually make this into just a 2MAD plan for me working towards keeping my calories under 1400 a day and keep the carbs fairly low as well.

I now have 3 days of exercise on the bike done for this week and I added the weights while riding it too. I will do 20 more minutes tomorrow and end with 4 days of exercise for this week. I probably won't have time to ride it on Friday. So I have a good plan started and now will work at making it a daily routine.

I'm glad to report that once the holidays were over Daddy sounds great. Still isn't where he wants to be, but he sounds more upbeat than he did during the holidays. So that is good.

Everybody have a great day.

DH had a bad day today. The PT came and he did great on the stairs but he was telling her that although his hip was feeling better he was having pain in his hamstring. She did a maneuver on him and after that he felt light headed as if he was going to pass out. His blood pressure went sky high. She helped him into bed and stayed until he felt a little better but it was hours before he felt back to normal. I think the maneuver did this to him .He is very sensitive to things like that. He feels better now and ate some chicken soup.

I made all his doc appointments. They are spread out all month. I can't wait until this is over.

My Tart Cherry Extract came today so I will take it tonight and see how I do with it. I really passed a lot of urine today as I maybe I lost some water weight.

Trish I think the plan that works for you is best no matter which one it is.

Happy New Year!


This is my year! Of course that is what I said last year. Overall, I had moments where some of the stuff I was tracking was better. In the end though, most of things are about the same with the exception of my weight. Unfortunately, it is up nine pounds. That is above my starting weight and doesn't include the five pounds I lost in February. 2019 will be better! Just need to focus more....


We got a new kitten for Christmas. She's cute as a button and is getting along well with our other kitty. We also have two dogs. She gets along with one of them. The other dog has been a bit more challenging as she likes to chase the kitten.


The food challenge for peanuts for my kiddo was a no go. She had a minor cold so the doctor wouldn't move forward with the test. We are going to try again tomorrow.

good luck with the food challenge Pipsicle. What plan are you going to use going forward?

I did OMAD today, at supper ate pretty well, but had a few carbs, no sugar. Just some crackers with the liverwurst. Lots of veggies.
I plan to take some of these salads to work tomorrow and share, so they don't go off before they get eaten.
I am thinking that I need to "stretch my fasting muscles" again. Wait a bit to get to the 36 and 42 hr fasts again. I must be patient so I don't sleep into sugar **** again but getting overwhelmed and over hungry.
It was fine at work when i busy.

Hope everyone has a good night.